I'm sitting here the day after our second run together with achy legs and feeling generally quite tired. It was another cold early morning run - in the realms of minus 5 to minus 8 degrees throughout.
At times it actually felt quite warm as the sunlight was reflecting off the snow onto us.
JK, Dave and Staff all ran well again so all good!
As for me I was feeling slightly jaded at times. I don't as a rule eat very many starchy/refined carbs within my nutrition yet my thinking is going into these longer runs of a weekend that I may need to introduce some starchy carbs in so that I can increase my glycogen stores????? (this will be something to experiment with during training)
Other factors for me feeling tired could've been that I performed my S&C sessions on Thursday and Friday last week?? That is a reason why I want to do those sessions earlier on in the week so that my runs of a weekend aren't affected by my efforts in the gym. Will make sure the following week that all my S&C work is done by the Wednesday to see if I feel better going into run number three.
So the nuts and bolts of our run were;
Run #1 9.3 miles - run #2 13.6miles
roughly 2hrs 40min on our feet
running through 6-8 inches of snow for long stretches
